It’s 9 a.m. on Monday morning, and I’m on the sixth floor of Sterling Hall at UW–Madison. Here, in the newly formed Wisconsin ...

When a star is born, it doesn’t emerge in isolation. Instead, it forms inside a large, chaotic cloud of gas and dust. Around ...

The paper, published in Nature Astronomy, reveals that the environment plays a crucial role in determining the size and lifetime of these planetary disks, which are the sites of planet formation.

Billions of years ago, in the frozen edges of the solar system, a violent impact shaped one of space’s oddest pairs. Instead ...

A study led by Paolo Padoan, ICREA research professor at the Institute of Cosmos Sciences of the University of Barcelona ...

Exquisite snapshots released on April 28 provide a rare glimpse into the earliest stages of planet formation in more than a ...

By listening to the echoes of "marsquakes" — seismic waves rippling through Mars ' crust — researchers uncovered signs of ...

Astronomers have discovered that "super-Earth" planets may exist on wider orbits than previously thought — and this implies these rocky, or "terrestrial," worlds are far more common than was suspected ...

By studying seismic waves, researchers have found a layer deep beneath the surface of Mars that could contain enough liquid ...

A star racing at high speed through our galaxy is dragging along a massive planet. This discovery surprises scientists, who ...

Stars have long inspired curiosity among observers, but our understanding of their birth and the creation of planets around ...

New research suggests vast surface features on Venus called coronae continue to be shaped by tectonic processes. Observations ...